Entries from April 2009

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Fun with Layer Styles

*Special Note* Make sure to check out my bonus blog published this morning
We’ve been working around with this series on non-destructive editing. Well, I think that we’ve been through about everything that I wanted to. I thought it would be a good idea to maybe give you a little pay-off for these techniques. [...]

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Infomercial Alert

Here’s a bonus blog. We’ll let this make up for me missing my date last week. So here’s the scoop. I just watched an infomercial on CBS for Luminess Air which is an airbrush system designed for cosmetics. It’s quite an appealing infomercial as Mindy who works with airbrushes every day [...]

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Get Ready to Party!!!

If you are focusing your tat business on applying tats at fairs and festivals, it’s time to consider developing the private party business. The party business can help sustain you during the winter months when fairs and festivals are nonoperational. What better way to make it known that you do tat parties than [...]

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Keeping your Power Palette in Top Condition

I would like to take this week to address an issue with the Power Palette. We seem to be getting some calls from customers who have a misunderstanding as to the proper procedure for cleaning the Power Palette.
Here are the correct steps:
If you are doing a multi day show, at the end of [...]

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Non-destructive Editing: Adjustment Layers

You may have detected a pattern to these posts in my non-destructive editing series, the last couple of weeks. Layers are everything. Fortunately for us, Photoshop thinks so, too.
Adjustment layers are yet another advantage to shelling out the serious coin for full blown Photoshop over it’s free and cheaper competitors. These special [...]

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Non-destructive Editing: Quick Masks

Sorry, I’m so late with this blog entry. I had the opportunity last weekend to do a Home and Garden show in Novi, Michigan, and when I got home last night, I didn’t really have the energy to blog.
This will be a bit of a short entry. I just wanted to write a [...]

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Put A Little Sunshine In Your Business

Now that spring is here it’s time to start thinking about booking some fairs & festival for the summer. You have already booked some shows for this summer, haven’t you? I thought so. You are awesome!
I would like to recommend one magazine I used when I did art shows. It [...]